In Cuba, los celebrate Father's Day (Día de Padres) on 3 Sunday in June

America
Brazil
In Brazil, the annual Father's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday in August.

Cuba
In Cuba, los celebrate Father's Day (Día de Padres) on 3 Sunday in June. This date is based on an initiative of the writer Dulce María Borrero, which campaigned for a national memorial day for the fathers. The first time was the Father's Day in Cuba on 19 June 1938 committed.

USA
In the U.S., Father's Day is on 3 Sunday in June. Sonora Smart Dodd in 1909 first brought the idea of a "Father's Day on" to honor her father William Jackson Smart, a Civil War veteran. His wife was at the birth of sixth child died, and Mr. Smart took the baby, and the other five children alone on a farm in eastern Washington state. Mrs. Dodd wanted to honor the strength and selflessness her father had met with his children. The first Father's Day was on 19 June 1910 in Spokane, Washington, observed. At the same time appeared in various American cities Father's Day celebrations. 1924 President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea of a national Father's Day. And in 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a proclamation declaring the third Sunday in June Father's Day.

President Nixon in 1974 rising to the rank of the Father's Day an official holiday for the third Sunday in June.

The Father's Day in the U.S. is primarily the day on which the children meet their fathers with gifts, poems and flowers. Joint excursions are on the program and many, particularly male Americans are the forgotten Father's Day trips and activities with their fathers. In addition, there is also a day for men, similar to the as in Germany the idea of a man's cult is celebrated.

The U.S. President George W. Bush announced on 13th June 2003, a "President's Father's Day Proclamation" out.

Venezuela
In Venezuela, the Father's Day is celebrated every year on the third Sunday in June.
Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatertag

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Easter (Latin pascha, from Hebrew: Pesach)

Easter
Easter (Latin pascha, from Hebrew: Pesach) in Christianity is the annual commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who conquered the New Testament as the Son of God for death.

Since the saving events were, according to the Bible in a Passover week, determined the date of this movable feast main Jewish also the date of Easter: Easter falls on the Sunday after the first spring full moon, in the Gregorian calendar that is on or after the 22nd March and no later than 25 April.

In the early church Easter was celebrated as the unit of memory of suffering and resurrection in the Easter celebration ("Vollpascha"). From the 4th Century was the most important festival in the church year as a three-day celebration (Triduum paschale) unfolds historicizing. The services cover since in most of the liturgies of the celebration of the Last Supper on Holy Thursday evening - the eve of Good Friday - the Holy Saturday, the day the grave silence of the Lord until the dawn of the new week on Easter Sunday.

This begins the joy of Easter time ("Easter"), the fifty takes days until Pentecost. In the Middle Ages evolved from the original separate Ostertriduum Triduum, which took off the first three days of the Octave of the rest of the celebration week. Later this non-working period was shortened until only the Easter Monday was retained as a public holiday.

The common name in the German Easter is old origin, and is probably the direction "East together": the place of the rising sun is in Christianity as a symbol of the risen and returning Jesus Christ. Many Easter customs are non-Christian ("pagan") origin.

Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostern

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Hosta is a genus of perennials of the family Liliaceae

Hosta (genus)
Hosta is a genus of perennials of the family Liliaceae by conventional classification, or by Agavaceae APG II. This genus has sometimes been placed also among Asparagaceae or Hyacinthaceae.

History
The name was given to the Hosta genus in 1812 in honor of the Austrian botanist Nicholas Thomas Host. The Japanese name Giboshi either genus name, funkier (given in 1817), also used as a common name, can be found in some ancient texts. Today the name of Hosta was formalized because of its prior, as is the rule of botanical nomenclature. The English call the hosta "plantain lily" because of the shape of its leaves with parallel veins reminiscent of the weed.

Hosta plantaginea Although originates from China, the most widespread species in Western gardens were introduced from Japan to Europe by Philipp Franz von Siebold in the middle of the nineteenth century. New species have since been discovered on the Korean peninsula.

Source: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosta_(genre)

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Hypericum and its uses

Hypericum
Hypericum (Hypericum) is a genus of the family of Klousioeidon (Clusiaceae), which includes about 150 species, grass, bushes or brushwood. Main species is Hypericum perforatum (Hypericum perforatum, commonly known as balm, St. John's Wort or spatula) and Hypericum perfoliatum (Hypericum bright, commonly leichinochorto or starida).

The St. John's Wort is an evergreen plant with a height of about one meter and flowers with bright yellow, which occur around mid-June. It is an endemic plant in almost the entire European continent.

Uses
St. John's Wort or Hypericum has been the subject of medicine since ancient times. The ancient Greeks used it as a diuretic, healing, haemostatic and emminagogo.

Today in the U.S. and many other countries in the form of pills used to treat mild and moderate depression (so called "alternative to Prozac"). Also used as an anticonvulsant for the treatment of insomnia.

Outdoor use:
Used in tincture form, having extracted the fresh plant oil in glass jars sealed well, staying in the sun for 40 days or so, as a healing wounds, burns, irritations and first grade.

Indoor use:
* As tea is usually a teaspoon of grated dried leaves and flowers in a cup of hot water, to cover them and leave, covered for 10-15 minutes to pass all components of the plant in water, from one to three times a day further advice and guidance of doctors, pharmacists and other experts.
* In capsules or tablets: On advice of doctors or pharmacists.
* In an alcoholic tincture: Following the advice of a doctor or pharmacist.

General Instructions - Precautions
Hypericum can affect the liver causing a person's sensitivity to light. In the skin of some individuals can cause reactions manifested by skin irritations,

According to some researchers, hypericum may affect the metabolism of certain enzymes. Therefore, caution should be exercised when administered concomitantly with other drugs or certain foods.

In any case, when plants are used for treatment, you should always inform the doctor or pharmacist and their use is under the guidance of an expert.
Source: http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A5%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C

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Gloriosa Distribution and systematics

Use
The crown of glory is cultivated as an ornamental plant, both as a container plant as well as a cut flower.

They contain colchicine, the same toxin as the autumn crocus, and is therefore highly toxic. Gloriosa is grown for commercial production of colchicine.

Distribution and systematics
This species has a very large range, stretching from Africa to Asia to Australia. As found in such a large area of a certain natural variability of the features is several different species have been described, but which may be as one, that is summarized Gloriosa superba. The genus is not monotypic but, according to recent studies because the species are classified Littonia here.
Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhmeskrone

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The Wild Hyacinth and Bluebell

The wild hyacinth and bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta, synonym: Scilla non-scripta) is a plant of the asparagus family (Asparagaceae).

The plant has already been described by Carl Linnaeus, who the non-scripta species name given to this plant because unlike the hyacinths no white characters in the bloemdekbaden could discern. Linnaeus reported him to the hyacinths (Hyacinthus). Later the plant in the genus Scilla classified. Now the plant is classified in the genus Hyacinthoides.

The leaves are grass-shaped, long and 0.3 to 1 cm.

The fragrant flowers are tubular to slightly bell-shaped and have yellow anthers. Only the tips of the tepals recurved. The flowers are grouped shaped spray, and hung to one side. White copies are often found. Pink forms are rare. The fruit is ovoid, the seeds have a black color.

Favorite place in deciduous forests. The plant reproduces by seed and vegetatively by forming bijbolletjes.

Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilde_hyacint

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